Aug 31, 20135 minThe writer in winterSomewhat embarrassedly, I must admit that I had not read Paul Auster, widely acknowledged as one of America’s leading novelists, till his...
Aug 3, 20134 minRemembrances of things pastThe rain pours down. The glowering grey of the clouds thickens the green of the neem, the jamun, even the keekar trees of Delhi. Traffic...
Jun 1, 20135 minFrom easy rider to revolutionaryBrowsing the bursting bookshelves at Bangalore’s bookshop, Blossoms, I found myself hoping for a small miracle: that from the piles of...
May 4, 20134 minPoems on the SandSome half a century ago, Paula Ben-Gurion, wife of Israel’s first Prime Minister looked over the hedge while pottering around her Tel...
Mar 3, 20135 minThe superfluous manIt’s the same space in the sky, but that’s about it. The tall, straight-lined and right-angled Intourist Hotel, the pride of Soviet...
Feb 3, 20135 minOf Valour SublimeFor several days now, the military bands have been practising beyond my office window, perfecting their march down to Vijay Chowk and...
Dec 1, 20125 minE.M. Forster chews ‘paan’A passage to India in the company of E.M. Forster Occasional writing is a much neglected and sometimes denigrated genre probably because...
Nov 3, 20124 minRage, rage against the dying of the lightTracing Dylan Thomas’s steps to his favourite watering hole, the White Horse Tavern, New York. I am in literary legend land in downtown...
Nov 1, 20124 minShort stopoverNavtej Sarna’s short story collection is here. As is Prajwal Parajuly’s. Will they usher in good times for short story writers in a...